Figure 1.--This is a A pit boy in the Ashington Colliery, Northumberland. One source indicated that the photograph was taken in 1924, but this needs to be confirmed. (Another source sys 1911, but the boy's clothes look more like 1924 to HBC.) Click on theimage for another photograph at the same pit (mine) showing this boy and his pony taking a coal train to the pit head. |
Photography appeared about 1840. All imasges from the mines would be drawings before 1840. Photography was very epensive and cumbersome, thus it is unlikely that images exist of the childrem in the minds before the development of the modeately expensive carre de viste about 1860. Even so few children working in the mines had money for photography aat sny price and few photographers seem to think them an interesting subject. This did not change until the turn of the 20th century when a number of socially conscious photographers in Europe and America began to document child labor in an effort to inform the public of the conditions under which children labored.
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